An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
Jocelyn Lane
- Anna
- (as Jackie Lane)
Paul Hardtmuth
- Hans
- (as Paul Hardmuth)
David Barry
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Alan Coleshill
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Howard Garstka
- Extra
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- GoofsAlthough the two men stay in their private berth and are oblivious to what is going on as the decoupled passenger car rolls down the side track into Gudavia, multiple exterior shots of the rolling car show different sets of windows either open or closed from shot-to-shot, although there was no one else on the car to open or close the windows.
- Quotes
[looking at the castle]
Mike Wilson: Sinister looking dump isn't it.
- Alternate versionsIn the 1980s Columbia Pictures replaced their slightly abridged U.S. version with a version restored to its original British length of 79 minutes. It is this version that has been used for pay-tv showings and video release.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Weirdo with Wadman: The Gamma People (1964)
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Weird combination of science fiction, political commentary and comedy
This movie seems to be pulling in so many different directions at once that it's difficult to figure out exactly what the filmmakers were actually trying to achieve. Was this intended to be a science- fiction thriller, a political comment on totalitarianism, a comedy or perhaps all three at once? It certainly seems to be a bit of all three at various times, and sometimes all three at the same time. Perhaps it is for that reason that the cumulative effect is a bit bizarre and doesn't quite work. For example, if this movie wasn't intended to be a comedy then why did they cast Paul Douglas and Leslie Phillips, both of whom were known principally for playing comic parts, in the two lead roles? And why do the police who administer the supposed Police State in the movie go about dressed in comic opera uniforms and seem no more formidable than the proverbial "Keystone Kops"? Even the head of the police comes off as such a hopeless buffoon that it is impossible to feel the least bit intimidated by him. One gets the impression that the country in the film was supposed to represent a sort of miniature Nazi Germany or Stalinist Soviet Union, but it simply comes off as a slightly bonkers version of San Marino or Andorra, complete with the obligatory colorful folkways.
See this if you have never seen it, just for the experience of a film that is so truly strange that it is almost impossible to categorize under any single genre.
See this if you have never seen it, just for the experience of a film that is so truly strange that it is almost impossible to categorize under any single genre.
- robertguttman
- Dec 15, 2015
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- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Гамма люди
- Filming locations
- Imst, Austria(filming location)
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- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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